"ask for" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: asks for [present, singular, third-person], asking for [participle, present], asked for [participle, past], asked for [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} ask for (third-person singular simple present asks for, present participle asking for, simple past and past participle asked for)
  1. To request. Synonyms: request Derived forms: ask for the moon, ask for seconds Related terms: beg Translations (request): αἰτέω (aitéō) (Ancient Greek), سَأَلَ (saʔala) (Arabic), طَلَبَ (ṭalaba) (Arabic), طلب (ṭalab) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), طلب (ṭálab) [South-Levantine-Arabic] (Arabic), istəmək (Azerbaijani), xahiş etmək (Azerbaijani), eskatu (Basque), demanar (Catalan), požádat o [accusative] (Czech), d:bH-b-H-A2 (dbḥ) (Egyptian), peti (Esperanto), paluma (Estonian), pyytää (Finnish), demander (French), ζητώ (zitó) (Greek), ביקש (bikésh) (Hebrew), kér (Hungarian), chiedere (Italian), ຂໍ (khǭ) (Lao), petō (Latin), poscō (Latin), requīrō (Latin), lūgt (Latvian), prasīt (Latvian), ābiddian (Old Saxon), درخواست کردن (Persian), pedir (Portuguese), mañay (Quechua), проси́ть (prosítʹ) (Russian), pedir (Spanish), fråga efter (Swedish), istemek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-ask_for-en-verb-xUBsFePd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (for) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (for): 83 17 Disambiguation of 'request': 87 13
  2. To increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite. Translations (to invite upon oneself): (bok³) (Cantonese), напра́шиваться (naprášivatʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-ask_for-en-verb-QdhoNjcq Disambiguation of 'to invite upon oneself': 42 58

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "request",
      "word": "chiedere"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "request",
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      "sense": "to invite upon oneself",
      "word": "搏"
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